Research

Friday, March 25, 2011

We are growing an excellent collection of print resources for this project.
They are in a public resource list in Destiny called Medieval World
The directions below will walk you through generating a bibliography from a public resource list.

Here are your topics. Mr. Stevenson was thoughtful in including the dates on which to focus your research. This will help you a great deal

Since you will be looking at PERSIA + GT for a specific chronological time frame, I recommend starting with reference books to start accumulating relevant search terms and phrases:

Timetables of History (World or US) REF 902.02 GRUN and REF 973 TIMET

World Eras, vol. 9 and American Decades, vol. 2 REF 903 WORLD and REF 973 AMERI

Please not that when Ms. Macomber says you need a book in print, the above resources wll not suffice - they are reference books and we'll talk about what that means in class for both books and databases.

Speaking of databases...
We have a mobile app for all the Gale resources (I starred* them below). Here are tutorials for downloading the apps (phone and iPad). It's a wee-bit tricky. Remember, you are looking for scholarly journal articles for this project!

Please refer to both graphics on left. Just click on them to see them better.

Expanded Academic ASAP*

ProQuest Platinum (use new interface)

History in Context*

SIRS Decades (Primary sources)

Annals of American History (Primary sources) - lots of foreign policy documents with global impact

Books:
Search the online catalog for resources, but most are in 940.3.Of course the upside about the online catalog is that it can help you generate a bibliography of your print resources (tutorial). You can also use QuickCite to generate citations for print resources for print resources (tutorial). Don't have a smart phone? No worries! Check one out at the circulation desk!

Many books are on a cart at this point because students have been pulling them. Overnight checkout only.

Pre-assessment results follow. You guys are good! We'll have a follow us evaluation of what you learned as this project winds down.

Monday, March 21, 2011

So it looks as though you need to reference full-text literature, songs, visual art, film and plays then draw correlation between those and the concrete world, developing from those relationships a thesis.

Databases:

In the mobile app for the literature, Academic ASAP, Opposing Viewpoints, and the Psychology collection, you can use the search field at the very top to cross-search the entire Gale periodical collection at once, but that won't include the literature criticism database or the historical database :-(

Remember all passwords are listed on pg. 41 of your NCHS planner, and on the NCHS Library database page

Another excellent resource for literary criticism comes out of University of Michigan the Internet Public Library's literary collection. This is part of the "deep web" or the invisible web - databases of (mostly) free resources that are seldom picked up by typical search engine searches. Google Scholar is a great place to explore for are to find resources too.